The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
Bishop Koerner Insists upon His Proposition
That Charlie ston Is the site of the Garden.

Bishop Koerner Insists upon His Proposition
That Charleston Is the Site of the Garden.
Southern Christian Advocate
It must be very delightful to find ourselves
near Eden, probably within its bounds. But to
guard against possible reaction in the minds
of the good people Of Charleston. have thought
it best to fortify the viewswhich We're presented
in the Advocate of the 9th of October last and
which carry with them so large share of prob
ability az
That sowealthy denosit of fossils should be
found on the banks of the Ashley cannot be &C
counted for by the action of sea currents The
only other force is that of glacial agency; a
theory that supposes the preparation of the
earth for the habitation of man by ice processes,
and which enveloped ALI animal life in death
long before mans appearance. The advocates
OF 1t. however, say that "the glacial agency Is
not recognized in the United States south of
the Ohio river and proofs of its action are en-
tirely wanting in California
l. Doubtless these fossils are of animals in
dIgenous to the region where they were found.
The statement of Professor Holiness of Charles
ton. to the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia. IS that there is on the banks of
fossil remains, in deposits of post tertiary age:
remains of the hog, the horse. and other ami
mails Of recen, date, together with human bones,
mingled with the bones of the mastodon and ex-
tlnct gigantic lizards"
They were overwhelmed together by COM
mon disaster. 1t is great stretch to suppose
that among the beautiful groves of Eden land
there We're grottoes and cathedrals built by God,
such as the Luray Caves in Virginia with its
clustered. huted columns, ats high Gothic arches,
ana even Its organ pipes The white phosphate
OF lime would have presented the material for
such retreats of sufficient strength In the hour
OF their alarm. men and beasts would have
sought such shelter. It's vaulted chambers
would have held their floating bodies free from
the action of the Hood until its subsistence
When at the end of the year the earth was
broken in strata, and all nature disposed by
God so to throw over man deerer shadow
and shorter life then the electric pulsations
which visited Eden might break into pieces
these remains of Paradise, and mingle the bones
OF domestic animals and man with those of the
mastodon and the saurian.
1t is noticeable that Journal and Christol,
Schmerilng Austin NJ. Lartet NJ. Boucher, DR..
Rigolet, all speak of remains-found usually in
the south of France-of the mammoth, the ele
phant the extinct OK, in company with bones
and implements of men. all in caves.
There two facts of much import in the
fossil deposit of the Ashley. They contain fos-
SLICED human bones with the bones of the mas
todon. The bones of NJ. giganteus the mas
todon. have been seldom found in the mineral
state, though bones and teeth have been found
sillclfed This mastodon, in the opinion of DR..
Adam Clark, is the behemoth of Job. 1t has
generally been obtained from the alluvial for
nations at depth of from ave to ten feet We
are not surprised at the discovery of human
bone. here and there, enveloped in stalagmites,
with the remains of mammoth. rhinoceros and
other animals. which. under the drip of lime,
might require no great length of time, but
seldom, II ever hear of fossilized human bone.
Indeed, for long time it averred that
that there were none; and considerable stress
was put upon the fact to prove that man lived
long after these great acknowledgements ''thou-
sands of years after!" Now we find that on the
banks of the Ashley they lived together and
we can understand the true force of what the
Almighty says to Job: Behold behemoth
which 1 made with thee"
2. Man might have been made as well on one
side or the Atlantic as the other. for he could
over; and before the food probably did
But how about the behemoth7 Elephants might
have been CARVED. for they were serviceable to
man and could be- gentled. The general charac-
ter of behemoth makes it very questionable if
he could have been gotten on board any craft.
he Is presented as 1.-The chief of the ways of
God'-the head of land animals. as leviathan
was of the sea. And these two behemoth and
the whale, are the best known of all mammals
Whoever visited the exposition at New Orleans
will Der the consideration given to both
of them. The mastodon, as reproduced by Mr.
Ward, was standing in the gallery of the gov
eminent building. midway, just in front of the
principal aisle. He stood there as the lord of
creation his great tusks and head projecting
well over the rail, altogether about the size of
several elephants. In expression very for
midable, self contained individual. IF this was q
them the consciousness of his strength; the larg
est, widest, most invulnerable and dangerous
of all that inhabited the hills the plains. HE
that made him can make His sword to approach
unto him." He could surpass the enormous
speed of the elephant having greater stride.
Such an animal stirred at the rate of mile in
three minutes would be difficult to head or to
handle. Then it would be necessary to trans
port more than one across the sea; and there
would seem to be special object gained by
the venture. So that the question recurs. how
came he on both sides of the Atlantic2 Strong
as the inclination to migrate may have been in
him. he could not have passed the barrier of the
ocean between Europe and America. If he
crossed over, ne must have been ried over.
Only. He that made him" could bring him be-
fore Adam in Eden, afterward into the ark of
Noah.
John Foster. OF England says: ''The sight
of the two first wild fierce creatures that came
up of their own motion into the ark must have
produced an effect upon the scoffers of that day
only less powerful than the tread of an earth
quake" We can well imagine thatthese two 4nor-
nous mammals. ''the chief of the ways of God"
would lead off in this sublime procession of ami
mated nature at the bidding of the Creator. 1t
was doubtless well forget them securely slowed
away in their cribs at the very earliest moment,
the other side, at the unloading, they
should be the very last to test the consiStence
of the newly -made ground
3. Gold" has been found somewhere near the
sources of the Santee and of the Savannah;
possibly, also, the "onyx." The Pison. the
Gihon, the Hiddekel and the Euphrates doubtless
gave their names afterward to many 'sfowery,2
falling" and ''arrow-swift' streams in the land
where the ark rested. and humanity began
again its great flow. just as the movers to the
far West from the Carolinas are very apt to
transport the names of the streams and towns
left behind them to the frontier regions where
they conclude to dwell.